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“Churches have always faced difficult moral issues and they have muddled through.” Hobson. Some will argue that the challenge of the sexual revolution and the normalization of homosexuality is nothing new or unusual. He says, “Until quite recently I would have agreed,” but he also says “it becomes ever clearer that the issue of homosexuality really is different.” Why is such a challenge to Christianity different? Hobson suggests that the first challenge is what he recognizes as the either/or quality of the new morality. I agree with him that there really is no middle ground in terms of the church’s engagement with these hard and urgent questions.  Churches will either affirm the legitimacy of same-sex relationships and behaviors or they will not. And the churches that do not will take a stand on the basis of a claim that God has revealed a morality to his human creatures in Holy Scripture. The second factor Hobson suggests is what he calls “the sheer speed of the ho...

The Brevard County School Board unanimously rejected a proposed pro-homosexual and pro-transgender addition to their non-discrimination policy Tuesday night. Nearly 100 people signed up to speak about the proposed ordinance change, with over 90 of them against adding "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the school's nondiscrimination ordinance. Speeches ranged from expressing concerns that a pro-transgender, pro-homosexual policy would threaten privacy and confuse children to calls for God back in public schools.  Terry Rocks of The Brevard Youth Network said, "There is a spiritual force here, and it is evil." Opponents also said the proposed LGBTQ addition would brand Christians as bigots and subject them to discipline for "discrimination." Melbourne parent Jason Schack threatened that he and others would leave the public schools if they adopt a pro-transgender, pro-homosexual policy. "I just hope your school...

Seal of the RNC (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is standing with pro-family advocates against the LGBT movement 's effort to allow transgender students to use facilities designed for members of the opposite sex. In an official resolution   passed last month, the RNC said it "encourages State Legislatures to recognize that these Obama gender identity policies are a federal governmental overreach, a misinterpretation of Title IX policies, and an infringement upon the majority of students' Constitutional rights." Additionally, "the Republican National Committee encourages state legislatures to enact laws that protect student privacy and limit the use of restrooms, locker rooms and similar facilities to members of the sex to whom the facility is designated." The resolution,   which was first reported on Twitter   on Wednesday by TIME's Zeke Miller, was quickly denounced by a Democratic National Committee spoke...

A cancer victim who sued the state of Tennessee for the "right" to have doctors kill him says the U.S. Supreme Court's decision constitutionalizing homosexual "marriage" expands individual rights so as to legalize assisted suicide . Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Jay Hooker , who is terminally ill, wants to be put to death. A Tennessee judge said no. Hooker's lawyer argued that since   Obergefell v Hodges   was decided, that's unconstitutional.  Hooker, 84, went to court in Nashville to win the "right" to die by assisted suicide. Three doctors said they were willing to prescribe a deadly dosage of painkillers for him, but they wanted to be sure they wouldn't be put in jail for killing him. Hooker's attorney, Hal Hardin, sought to prove that since the U.S. Supreme Court constitutionally expanded the definition of a fundamental right to include gay "marriage," the right to privacy is constitutional...

The recent decision of the Supreme Court Royal of the United States, to declare that a man has the physiological capacity to mate with another man, has been hailed as a victory for “love.” We have heard that before. The whole sexual revolution was hailed as a victory for “love.” It requires a sensible person to pause and say, “Love of what, exactly? And what do you mean by that word?” It cannot be an orgy of sexual license. “Such love is hate,” says the poet Edmund Spenser, putting matters as bluntly as possible. Nor is it indifference, going by the name of tolerance; hardness of heart for the weakling. “An amiable niceness to everybody,” says Frank Sheed in Society and Sanity , “was not what Christ made into the second greatest commandment .” A normal man accepts womanhood on its own terms, as the real thing it is, and desires that it should be fulfilled – usually and most obviously in marriage. He looks upon another man as, like himself, the begetter of children, obviously ma...

THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY felt an explosion quite unlike that which shook Sodom, an eruption of reinterpretation of Scripture regarding gay and lesbian sexuality. To varying degrees, these studies have found the traditional view of key texts wrongheaded and in error. The old interpretations were replaced by three approaches:     1.       References to homosexuality do not occur in passages where they traditionally have been seen (Gen. 19:1–8; Judg. 19:16–30; Ezek. 16:44–50; 1 Cor. 6:9–11; 1 Tim. 1:8–10; 2 Peter 2:6–8; and Jude 6–8). Identification of homosexuality in these passages is improper interpretation of Scripture.     2.       Homosexuality is in the context of certain passages, but these texts concern Israel ’s special ritual or sacred relationship to God (e.g., Levit. 18:22; 20:13). They are irrelevant to the Christian.     3.       Whatever references to homosexuality are in Scripture may...

EVERY PERSON COMES TO THE matter of homosexuality with an established opinion, which has been shaped by a worldview. By worldview I mean a person’s concept of self, the world, and everything else. Every worldview encompasses what one views as real, the nature of truth, how we come to know what is true, and how we define what is “good” in an ethical sense. One’s worldview determines whether homosexuality is perceived as right or wrong. My own worldview is founded upon my confidence in the existence of a creating and governing God . This God has spoken or communicated both in general revelation through the created order and in the special revelations of Scripture and His Son, Jesus Christ . General revelation includes the complexity of the design and creation of the human body, the awareness of the spiritual self and conscience, and the unfolding of a plan that is shown through history. Reality encompasses both seen and unseen dimensions, the earthly and the heavenly. Jesus Chris...